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She constantly provides various intelligence by making use of her wide connections.

Fearchar's wider connections are further illustrated by his religious patronage.

But other defense officials said the team's task quickly turned to gleaning details that may have collectively pointed to Iraq's wider connections to terrorism.

He was sent to the United States for various land deals, and formed wide connections with American houses.

The alliance fitted with Vernon's wider connections.

If students really want to understand a form of thought or a professional domain, they ought not to graduate without some inkling of those wider connections.

The stimulator sends timed pulses of electricity to the vagus nerve, which has wide connections throughout the brain.

So the agency called on Mr. Galloway, a cowboy with wide connections in Texas, to help them arrange adoptions, he said.

Pictish society was typical of many Iron Age societies in northern Europe, having "wide connections and parallels" with neighbouring groups.

Trial testimony disclosed his wide connections with underworld figures on the Riviera, in Italy and in Corsica, where he was born.

The numerous family and the wide connections of the youthful- looking Private Secretary cherished for him the hope of an austere and exalted destiny.

To underline these wider connections, RTS organized one London street party in solidarity with striking London Underground workers.

The Norwegian news media has aggressively followed leads about the suspects' wider connections to the European criminal underworld, particularly the violent Kosovar Albanian gangs with footholds in the region.

The culture of Jämtland has been greatly affected by the fact that Jämtland's never had an upper class, since the population have mostly consisted of free sovereign farmers with wide connections and a strong regional identity.

Both Constantinople and Venice were, between the sixth and fourteenth centuries, cosmopolitan cities and thriving commercial ports with wide connections with all nations of the Byzantine world from the western Mediterranean to Russia.

To support his case, Ailbe made much of the saint's wider connections to other churches and saints, making him travel all across the country and in the case of the anecdote about Abingdon (see below), even inventing tradition.

The team's current task, described by one official as "data mining," is to glean individual details that may collectively point to Iraq's wider connections to terrorism, but which may have been obscured by formal assessments that play down the overall Iraqi threat.

When the vastly popular Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was appointed to Canada in 1946, Letson - as a soldier with wide connections in business and society - proved an admirable choice as Secretary to the Governor-General.

The same wider connections can be hypothesized for the "cow" derivation: the Boeotians have been known for well over a century as a people of kine, which might have been parallel to the meaning of Italy as a "land of calves."

Ewald Latacz, thanks to his wide connections among German politicians in Upper Silesia, was released from prison on probation in spring 1919, but was absolutely forbidden "verbal and written" announcements of the idea of Upper Silesia's independence.

Walid Khalidi - with his grey hair, slightly skewed necktie and elegant suits - is a man with wide connections throughout the Arab world and is seen by Palestinians as eminent, a soft-spoken, authoritative and publicity-shy person who has little patience for fools.

Ireland's troubles are Mr. Moore's central subject, and he takes a working-class perspective, but his songs often draw wider connections - from Sacco and Vanzetti to Bobby Sands, from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, from South Africa to Northern Ireland.

Known as a well-liked figure with very wide connections, in his policial life was seen as a representative who, particularly in his earlier career, took a nuanced position on some of the key issues of the day: arguably, such a stance at times both smoothed and hindered his political advancement, but his popularity was undoubted.